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Wednesday, 06 November 2013

Aberdeen last won the Scottish Cup in 1990 thanks to an epic penalty shoot-out against Celtic at Hampden Park. Defender Brian Irvine was the Dons hero that day, slotting home the decisive spot kick to win 9-8.
Little did the travelling hoards from the north east, who had watched their side dominat...

Friday, 01 November 2013

We are that point in the season now where every team has played each other once in the Scottish Premiership and based on that it is now time to review how all the teams stand following almost three months of action.
Aberdeen: The Dons were touted to challenge when the season opened and consid...

Tuesday, 01 October 2013

Week Eight of this season’s Scottish Premiership got under way at lunchtime on Saturday as Celtic made the short trip down the A77 to visit their friends in Kilmarnock. It must be admitted that in the early stages of this game it appeared we were going to be in for a sloppy goalless encounter as...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Let’s get the show on the road this week with the league leaders Inverness Caley Thistle. The Highlanders had a short journey to make by their standards down to the Granite City to face a newly invigorated Aberdeen side. Aberdeen’s pounding of Partick Thistle last week was a bit of a rarity for Do...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Week six of the SPFL, look away now if you like to back home wins on your coupon each weekend, this weeks fixtures are not for you!
The action got under way in Edinburgh on Saturday as Hearts entertained Celtic at Tynecastle. As expected the atmosphere was absolutely electric in the build up to the...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

The past seven days have seen Arsenal give a debut to their club-record signing Mesut Ozil, the issue of diving return, referees getting pelters and England edging ever closer to the World Cup in 2014.
But what have we actually learned from watching the beautiful game over the past seven days?
Her...

Wednesday, 04 September 2013

Saturday was the last day of summer and as we conclude the fifth week of the new Scottish Premiership season we are on the long winter road discovering who will finish second to Celtic this season.
It will be Celtic again who will clinch the title; the two matches they played over the past week a...

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Its been more than 13 years since plucky Highlanders Inverness Caledonian Thistle produced one of the biggest shocks in Scottish football when they sensationally dumped John Barnes Celtic out of the Scottish Cup at Celtic Park. The result also produced one of the best headlines ever - Super Caley ...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

The third round of fixtures in the Scottish Premiership kicked off on Friday night in Glasgow as Partick Thistle entertained Hearts. Both clubs will be happy with the opening couple of weeks of the season considering they were tipped by many as relegation fodder, but as week three came to a close ...

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Neither Celtic nor Rangers kicked a ball in the Scottish Premiership this week, but as 100,000 supporters shelled out money to watch the Old Firm in action over the weekend they deserve a mention in the weekend’s review.
Rangers got life under way in League 1 as the new kids on the block having...

Sunday, 11 August 2013

The Premier League season is just days away and we at Squarefootball are getting ready by staring into our crystal balls and predicting our winners and losers for the season ahead.
Weve already had Mitch Waddon predict title glory for Manchester City while Jim Barry has plumped for Jose Mourinh...

Saturday, 10 August 2013

There are only days remaining until the most exciting league in the world kicks off for another action-packed season of goals, controversy and talking points.
The action is already under way in the Football League and Scotland, but who will be the biggest winners and losers during 2013/14 campaign?...

Wednesday, 07 August 2013

It’s back. It might now be called the SPFL Scottish Premiership and there is even a new TV Channel called BT Sport broadcasting some of the games, but on Friday evening there was no doubt that Partick Thistle were lining out against Dundee United in what is the top flight of Scottish football.
If y...

Thursday, 01 August 2013

The new Scottish Premiership season gets under way this weekend and the champions Celtic start the campaign as runaway favourites to pick up their 45th Scottish league title, but who will finish where in the rest of the division?
Will Aberdeen finally launch a sustained challenge for silverware...

Friday, 26 July 2013

The Scottish Premier League, or Scottish Premiership as it will now be known, has traditionally been a two-horse race between the Glasgow giants of Celtic and Rangers. That was the case until the Gers were sent packing to Division Three, leaving the gates wide open for the Bhoys to dominate.
Last...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

The notion of returning to a 16-team top tier in Scotland has been
mooted for the past few seasons and with Rangers dropping out of the
top tier it has never looked more likely that the 16-team division
will come to pass.
There are two major issues at stake with such a proposal.
The
...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

It’s a universal truth that some people are just plain unlucky. These desperate souls, through no real fault of their own, just get a rough deal in this bad ol’ world and spend their days enduring an avalanche of ungodly misfortune and rudimentary shite. And don’t suffer the misapprehension that t...

Thursday, 23 August 2012

When you think of Spanish football only two names come to mind, Barcelona and Real Madrid. Scottish football is exactly the same, with the rivalry between Celtic and Rangers known around the world.
The famous Old Firm derby looks like it will be off the calendar for at least four years following th...

Saturday, 18 August 2012

The new football season in England kicks off on Saturday and everyone will be going into the first game full of optimism and hope for a successful season. Unfortunately, some fans may be left crying in their beer come Saturday night.
You see, football can be a cruel, cruel game. It can take that op...

Monday, 06 August 2012

The new Premier League season kicks off in less than two weeks which means time is running out to select your fantasy football teams.
Do you think you can do a better job than the professor Arsene Wenger? Could you topple Mancini at Manchester City? Really?! Then this is your chance to prov...

Monday, 30 July 2012

The SPL gets under way this Saturday and following the demise of Glasgow Rangers nobody can see past Glasgow Celtic for the title. Neil Lennons men finished 20 points ahead of their fierce rivals last season and a whopping 31 points ahead of third placed Motherwell. The gulf in class is obvious, but...

Monday, 23 July 2012

Players and fans are supposed to wear their shirts with pride, but sometimes the tops are so hideous they make you utterly ashamed.
Arsenal fans have complained about their Dennis the Menace away kit, Manchester United supporters have hit out over their new tartan home kit and some Liverpool fans a...

Sunday, 22 July 2012

Do you think you can do a better job than the professor Arsene Wenger? Could you out-muscle Mancini at defending title winners Manchester City? Then this is your chance to prove it!
Squarefootballs Fantasy Football is back for another season and we want as many participants as possible. Last season...

Friday, 13 July 2012

Scottish football is in a sorry state right now as the Rangers debacle rumbles on, but today (Friday the 13th) Charles Greens newco Rangers are due to find out whether they will be gracing the first or third division of the Scottish Football League.
Its been a crazy few months for the men from Ibro...

Thursday, 28 June 2012

On August18, 2012, Charlton Athletic visit St Andrews in the Championship. Personally speaking the fixture is a trip down memory lane.
You see Birmingham City v Charlton Athletic was the first game I saw in the flesh. The date was September 15 1979 and the Blues won 1-0. Immediately I was hooke...

These are the men that put the fear factor into football. The men that gave their opponents nightmares. Here we celebrate the top 10 tough-tackling hard men that we all hate to love.
1. Roy Keane
Born and raised on a tough estate in Cork, Roy Maurice Keane is the undisputed king of hard men...

Wednesday, 06 June 2012

Calling all fantasy football fans. Have we got a treat for you.
If you think you are a better manager than Englands Roy Hodgson or that you could leave Germanys Joachim Low feeling really down in the dumps then why dont you prove it?
Weve set up our own Euro 2012 mini-league with the Sun and youve...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

It all came down to this then. It’s been a gruelling journey, epic in its fluctuating fortunes as the favourites for the crown jostled back and forth. Each weekend millions looked on, eagerly cheering their chosen heroes, willing them to put in the performance that would clinch the prize they so ...

Tuesday, 08 May 2012

The 2011-12 football season will probably be looked back upon with a real intrigue in future decades. It has been a long, incident-strewn expedition encompassing an abundance of controversy, drama and despair. It is hard to remember another campaign with more extraordinary talking points. The Luis S...

Tuesday, 01 May 2012

It ended with Liam Gallagher bopping along to his own record at the Etihad last night in the her-uge title showdown between the Manchester giants on Live Ford Monday Night Football. Basking in his own genius is probably a nightly ritual for Gallagher junior but what certainly hasn’t been a regular o...

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Manchester United’s Ashley Young and Chelsea’s Didier Drogba have caused controversy over the past fortnight by diving to win penalties and going down quicker than your average High Street hooker.
Ashley Young started it all off by winning a cheap penalty against QPR’s Shaun Derry, when the tough m...

Back in the hazy midsummer days of August 2011, while hoards of frenzied teenagers were marauding their way through the streets of London setting fire to police cars, looting Poundland and generally ruining Boris Johnson’s holiday; I was indulging in a regular pre-season pursuit. Like every footba...

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Well, it was a helluva’ few days in the Premier League title race last week wasn’t it? The fortunes of the twin Manchester clubs are weaving increasingly erratic patterns as the burden of the top trophy begins to heap its weight on their slumping shoulders. The last seven days or so have seen a numb...

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

There are many boulevards open to footballers when the time finally comes for them to hang up their boots, delete Sir Alex’s number from their Blackberry and say goodbye to the pantomime-drudgery of the Premier League. Obviously, the twin favourites for many pros are either a cushy job coaching the ...

Monday, 09 April 2012

As football fans, in our lives rarely is there a greater spectacle than a mouth-watering Champions League semi-final between two expensively assembled sides. Rarely is there a more exciting prospect than the thought of Arsenal and Manchester City at loggerheads, with both teams in need of three ...

Tuesday, 03 April 2012

It’s been around fourteen months since the corridors and offices of Sky Sports were rocked irrevocably by the now-infamous sexism scandal surrounding part-man, part-ape Richard Keys and his bosom buddy Andy Gray – the worthy winner of Nuts magazine’s 2006 ‘TV Personality That Most Resembles a Baby...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

It has certainly been a difficult old week in football. Quite rightly, the grave events surrounding Bolton’s Fabrice Muamba dominated all stratums of the game over the past seven days, and by extension all of the football coverage too. This resulted in a strange ambivalence amongst the week’s acti...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Despite the fact it has reached the ‘business end’ of the competition, I have so far abstained from reviewing ESPN’s FA Cup coverage; this is for two purely righteous reasons. Firstly, I believe that everyone should have the opportunity to watch England’s foremost domestic cup competition and I a...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

We would all like to be footballers, right? The money, the women, the cars. Oh, and the playing of football. That’s pretty good. But some are cooler than others. Too cool, even. So cool they make everyone else look like silly, awkward, emasculated chumps. So who were the 10 coolest footballers to e...

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Think about this for a second. How many times do you think you have seen Luis Suarez’s hand this weekend? Ten times? Twenty? A hundred? I’m sure I’ve seen his wandering hand more than I’ve seen my own two in the past 48 hours, such has been the swirling media-frenzy since he refused to settle his di...

Tuesday, 07 February 2012

I’m fairly certain we can all agree that football has its fair share of problems. If it is not the shady transfer dealings of murky agent types skulking around the bins at Tottenham’s training ground, it is the ignorant grunts of ill-informed morons as they boo a man purely for being the brother of ...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

The days leading up to the weekend’s FA Cup Fourth Round ties were not particularly pleasant for many football fans, a week in which the unseemly and murky face of football was glaringly apparent. Many column inches were devoted to the tax-evasion trial of Spurs manager Harry Redknapp, as well as th...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Have you played Football Manager 2012? You may wonder how a game brimming with data, facts and incalculable statistics comes to contain such a dearth of information. Well, in the early stages of the games development, some spotty oik is charged with the task of finding someone close to each of the 7...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

They say a week in football is a long time and it can certainly be said that there was enough controversy, incident and wonder crammed into the last seven days of football to keep Joey Barton’s Twitter account going for years. The fallout from the Manchester derby, the return of Scholes and Henry, t...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

The much talked about magic of the FA Cup was present in abundance this Sunday during the huge third round Manchester showdown, in fact there was more magic contained in the 90 minutes than during a Paul Daniels swingers party. Chris Foy’s card tricks, a disappearing City captain and most mystifying...

Tuesday, 03 January 2012

At the top of this article you will see, if you can get past the crass, self-congratulatory overuse of my own name, that the tagline for this column mentions that there isn’t enough football on the TV. Obviously this pithy line is actually nonsense as there is in fact far too much football clogging ...

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

If we boil it down, there are two distinct ways to spend the festive period. You either endure the holiday wallowing in a pit of desperate desolation, alone with no hope of joviality, good tidings or communal kinship. Sat crestfallen in front of Eastenders on Christmas night, nursing a bottle of gin...

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Let’s face it. Our footballing heroes don’t have the greatest reputation when it comes to brainpower and academia do they? A cautionary glance at the post-match interviews every week on Match Of The Day show us superstars struggling to grasp the complexity of questions such as, “How do you feel the ...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

It was clear at 1pm on Sunday what the overriding theme of the day was going to be on Sky Sports’ Live Super Sunday. Ed Chamberlain, growing more and more comfortably into the role of football anchorman, opened the afternoon’s football coverage by loudly proclaiming, “Sunderland’s new era begins tod...

Tuesday, 06 December 2011

Do you remember the first time you ever saw Star Wars? That intoxicating and bedazzling rush of pure unadulterated excitement as you sat slack-jawed, unable to wrench your eyes away from all the bright lights, whizzing space ships and questionable acting? And perhaps you also remember the desolate f...